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- brightlight4, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2
Devonport Trident Direct Action Resumes in Plymouth.
After direct action had been stifled for a couple of years by stalinoid control freaks and nationalists in the UK's nuclear disarmament movement, it was heartlifting to see an action on Friday 22nd August (see the BBC's report below). It was, however, a pity there weren't more actions while HMS Victorious was actually in the dock but there will be another Trident Sub coming for its refit in the next few months. It took just over six years to refit both HMS Vanguard and HMS Victorious, so presumably it will take just as long for the next two to be upgraded. It maybe even longer since each sub presumably has the most state-of-the art equipment built into it, which improves every year. Also, I do hope these nuclear disarmament nationalists would stop banging on about 'it was Scotland's turn but now it's England's turn', the point is to scrap Trident wherever it is.
N.B. HMS Vanguard arrived At Devonport in Plymouth on 2nd February 2002, when six were arrested for obstruction. After I organised the court support I set up a Trident Ploughshares group in Plymouth for Direct Action. Thus the Plymouth TP Direct Action campaign to scrap Trident at Devonport was launched on 6th August 2002 (Hiroshima Day) when Matt Bury and me (Sandra Leslie) hung a giant banner from the railway bridge above the Camel's Head nuclear base at Devonport Dockyard. And on the 9th August 2002 I dyed the Plymouth City Centre fountains red. But there was a lot of interfeference and control freakery going on even then, however, the first successful TP camp followed in November 2002 - click on: http://www.tridentploughshares.org/devonport
Sandra Leslie 28th August 2008.
The BBC's News Report.
A man has been charged with obstructing a highway after the entrance to Devonport Dockyard was barricaded by a group of anti-nuclear campaigners.
Police were called to the dockyard's Camel's Head gate in Plymouth at 0720 BST on Friday after protesters tied ladders together to block the entrance.
The 33-year-old man from Plymouth was arrested after allegedly lying in the road and refusing to move.
He will appear before Plymouth Magistrates' Court on 5 September.
Campaign group Trident Ploughshares said they were protesting about money being spent on renewing the UK 's Trident nuclear fleet. Devonport maintains, upgrades and fuels the Royal Navy's submarines and is the oldest naval base in Britain employing more than 4,000 people.
